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How George Santos Won His Freedom

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Michael Gold
On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. “Good luck George, have a great life!” the president said.

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George Santos, the disgraced former congressman from New York, had pleaded for mercy for months before President Trump commuted his sentence on Friday.

Cuomo Tries to Tie Mamdani to Muslim Leader’s Anti-Gay Stance

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Benjamin Oreskes
Andrew Cuomo, trailing in the New York City mayor’s race, sought to contrast his role in legalizing same-sex marriage with the views of some of Mr. Mamdani’s supporters.

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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo campaigning in the Bronx on Saturday. Mr. Cuomo criticized his opponent Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani after Mr. Mamdani met with an imam who has opposed homosexuality.

Santos in His Own Words: Pleading for Mercy and Promising a Comeback

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George Santos, the disgraced former congressman who was released from federal prison on Friday, has been a columnist for a Long Island paper, including from behind bars.

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George Santos, the former congressman, wrote numerous columns for The South Shore Press before and during his time in prison. Many were in praise of President Trump.

Jury Awards $19.7 Million to 6 Bystanders in Denver Police Shooting

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Ashley Ahn
The bystanders were injured when a Denver police officer fired, while facing a crowd of people, at an armed man outside a bar in 2022.

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Bailey Alexander, center, speaks alongside Willis Small IV, left, and Yekalo Wedewihet at a news conference in 2023. They were three of six bystanders injured during a police shooting in Denver in 2022. Christ Whitney, a lawyer, is at the center rear.

Inside Israel’s Battle Over the Haredi Draft and Who Must Fight in Its Wars

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Joshua Leifer
The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future.

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The Haredim have historically been exempt from serving in Israel’s armed forces, which has an otherwise compulsory draft for Jewish Israelis.

Alison Rose, The New Yorker’s Femme Fatale, Dies at 81

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Penelope Green
She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.

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Alison Rose in 2004. Her memoir, “Better Than Sane: Tales From a Dangling Girl,” grew out of a bombshell article about her time at The New Yorker.

U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

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Eric Schmitt， Charlie Savage and Carol Rosenberg
Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said.

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A Navy guided missile destroyer docked near the entrance to the Panama Canal in Panama City last month. The United States has deployed warships, surveillance planes and an attack submarine to the region.

Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103

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George Johnson
He and a colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics.

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The physicist Chen Ning Yang in 1963. Dr. Yang’s sense of mathematical beauty, his colleague Freeman Dyson said, “turns his least important calculations into miniature works of art.”
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